The art of grossing A manual and atlas of autopsy pathology

He began his teaching career at the Biophysics Institute of the University of Debrecen, where he served for five years as an award-winning demonstrator. From 1975 to 2021, he taught at the University of Debrecen’s Department of Pathology, lecturing in Hungarian and, from 1989, in English. Over almost five decades, he has performed and supervised countless autopsies and has guided several hundred Hungarian and international students during autopsy labs. He received the “Excellent Educator of the Medical School” award in 1994 and was named “Educator of the Year” multiple times. A regular lecturer in national CME programs, he was invited by the International Academy of Pathology to give histopathology slide seminars in Budapest (1996) and Brisbane (2004), and accepted several ad hoc teaching appointments in the USA (MS and PhD courses at Northwestern University, Chicago; Mayo Clinic Medical School, Rochester, MN). In 2003, he taught pathology for four months to third-year students at Ross University School of Medicine (Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica), and in December 2020 he lectured online to students at The American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in Curaçao. His primary research focus is the pathology of brain tumors. He spent nearly five years in the United States at the National Cancer Institute and later in laboratories at Northwestern University and the Mayo Clinic, and he spent two months at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He also performed extended diagnostic work at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.

He is a member of scientific societies in Hungary, Europe, the United States, Britain, and Japan, and a founding member of the Hungarian Society of Neuropathologists and the European Association of Neuro-Oncology. He has authored 122 scientific publications on general and neuropathological topics and has contributed several book chapters in Hungarian and English. This manual was written in response to repeated requests from students. Students and colleagues have praised the two Hungarian editions. Hopefully, the English version will also meet readers' expectations.